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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 191.08997
EAN num: 9780415944571
ISBN number: 0415944570
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Page Count: 232
Printing Date: June 18, 2003
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Currently, there are three approaches to studying American Indians: from how white Americans approach Indian studies, from the dynamics or exchange of Indian-white relations and from the Indian point of view. Donald Fixico, an American Indian, has been teaching and writing history for a quarter of a century. This book is the direct result of his experience as a scholar who 'thinks like an Indian' in an academic environment created predominantly by non-Indian thinkers. This book addresses current approaches to studying Native American traditional knowledge and acknowledges an Indian intellectualism that has up until now been ignored in studying Native American history. Written primarily from inside the Native world, but fully cognizant of the American cultures outside of that world, his unique voice speaks to a need for understanding the interior Native world: a world in which linear thinking is atypical and circularity is preferable.
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The importance of this book may well be over looked by those who need the information most. Historians, Anthropoligists, and myriad teachers. Finally someone has set to print the causes of many misunderstandings twixt the European mindset and the thought patterns of the Original People (OP). Fixico has accomplished a task long time coming. The neuances that the OP take as givens are all but lost on those bound by linear thinking. The world view of The OP when compared with White European Males (WEMs) is such that one is compareing a handful of dirt (WEMs) while the other (OP) is thinking of the Universe.
WEMs have no problem destroying the earth not realizing, as the OP do, that the earth is not all forgiving. WEMs can not wrap their munds around spatial thinking and the OP choose not to do otherwise. The all inclusive universe is considered on all levels by the OP. WEMs do not approach many levels. I'm not quite sure if this can be changed as it takes a great deal of faith in something other than a dollar.
I watch in amazement and wonderment at times as people try to understand what I'm saying. Too me everything is connected with everything else.
Thanx Fixico and may he always Walk in Beauty. You too
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